On 12/7/06, William Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do you believe that Jesus never lived, Larry? And if he did, do you not > > think he was crucified? > > There's a loaded couple o'questions...
Not really. how about the odd similarities of the "Jesus" story, virgin birth, son > of god, slaughter of innocents, etc. to the myriad of other legends > fables from other older and contemporary mythologies... I know nothing of those legends, to be quite honest. The Greeks and Egyptians both have dieties and such that fit this mold > for instance. As do a plethora of other religions. What about that? Again, I'm not familiar with any of these Greek or Egyptian "man-gods" that resemble the Jesus story. Also, if there are no contemporaries writing the stories down, why are > they taken as accurate? The Romans were particularly good record > keepers. Almost as good as the Germans... yet there exists no record > of Christ. Dunno. Do they have a written record of every single person who lived during their reign? What about the fact that Christ's lineage differs vastly in the > gospels of Luke and Matthew and that, if Christ was truly the son of > GeeHodee WTF does lineage back to David have to do with it? My lineage may be fudged up when it's written about 300 years from now. I'm not debating the validity of the Bible's account of Jesus' life....i'm wondering if he ever existed in the first place???? hrmmmm? Crash Test Dummies! -- Happy Christmas you arse, I pray God it's our last. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:221861 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
